January 2007 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

DESCR Info in Alerts
by geoff.hallford＠gmail.com 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi, I was wondering if there is anyway to change the default email alert contents to include the DESCR tag information for a host (without creating a custom alert script)? We have many support people who don't know what all of the hosts are for or if it goes down, what that means and I want to make it easier for them to know what is affected. Thanks.

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[hobbit] multiple RRD graphs for a single column
by gumby3203＠gmail.com 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

How can I get Hobbit to display multiple physical RRD graphs for a single column of data? Specifically, I'd like to have two distinct graphs (each with their own Y-scale) for a single data column that is being generated from an external script. This would be similar to how Hobbit sometimes shows multiple graphs under the "disk" column. I can't seem to find this anywhere in the documentation.

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[hobbit] - MySQL monitoring
by fduranti＠q8.it 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

You can use also dbcheck.pl to track the mysql database (connection and same stats as the normal sqlstatus script). The new version also has a custom query engine so it's possible to write to query to analyze and if someone know how to get more data out of sqlserver with query or sql command I can arrange some more checks for it (and graphs also...). Francesco > -----Original Message----- > From: thomas.seglard.enata at cnp.fr > [mailto:thomas.seglard.enata at cnp.fr] > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:09 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] - MySQL monitoring > > Hi, > > I'm just asking you how do you monitor your MySQL databases ? > I've setted up the bb-mysqlstatus.sh and modify it to support > NCV format. Now I got graphs for queries/sec and slowqueries. > That's cool but it's not very accurate... I'm using MySQL > Administrator from > http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html and results > are not the same. Did you write something to track insert, > select, etc. from 'mysqladmin extended-status' ? Thanks for > your help ! > Sincerly, > > Thomas > > > Ce message (et toutes ses pieces jointes eventuelles) est > confidentiel et etabli a l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. > Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme a sa > destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou > partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. > L'internet ne permettant pas d'assurer l'integrite de ce > message, CNP Assurances et ses filiales declinent toute > responsabilite au titre de ce message, s'il a ete altere, > deforme ou falsifie. > > ***** > > This message and any attachments (the "message") are > confidential and intended solely for the addressees. > Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. > E-mails are susceptible to alteration. > Neither CNP Assurances nor any of its subsidiaries or > affiliates shall be liable for the message if altered, > changed or falsified. > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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How to display only a section of clientlog ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

as you can see the intent of showing only prtconf has failed in following command. bash-3.00$ bb 127.0.0.1 "clientlog test.test.com section=prtconf" |egrep '^\[.*' [date] [uname] [uptime] [who] [df] [mount] [prtconf] [memory] [swap] [ifconfig] [route] [netstat] [ports] [ifstat] [ps] [vmstat] [iostatcpu] [iostatdisk] [msgs:/var/adm/messages] [logfile:/var/adm/messages] [clientversion] [clock] bash-3.00$ bb -v Unknown option -v Hobbit version 4.2.0 Usage: bb [--debug] [--proxy=http://ip.of.the.proxy:port/] RECIPIENT DATA RECIPIENT: IP-address, hostname or URL DATA: Message to send, or "-" to read from stdin _________________________________________________________________ Add a Yahoo! contact to Windows Live Messenger for a chance to win a free trip! http://www.imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/yahoo/default.aspx?locale=en-u…

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Adding data to a client
by vadud3＠gmail.com 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

I like to use `bb data hostname.serial<newline><the serial number>' to hobbit server. I do not want a column to be created. Then is it possible to query the serial number from within hobbit server using `bb query hostname.serial' just for the serial info? I don't want the data to expire. I guess I could test it myself. I dont want this data in the info column since it is suppose to be confidential due to support contract with SUN. -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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zoom graph feature
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

I think this has come up previously but I don't recall seeing a response...but how hard would it be to have the Zoom Graph function set the graph max to more accurately reflect the height of the block you select...ie, if I have a low load and I select a max height of around .2 when I drag my box, could the max on the new zoom be .2 instead of 1.0? =G=

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SMS +additional messages
by mprice＠hst.nasa.gov 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hello, I am rolling my monitoring over to sending email text messages to cell phones using the SMS format option. This works great :-) but....... Some of the users would like some more information in the message, how can I include some additional parameters... Specifically, when i am using DEVMON and the if_stat monitor status. It comes in the normal email formatting, but not in SMS. thanks, michael -- Michael A. Price Performance Network Engineering NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB Greenbelt, Maryland 20770 Phone: 240-684-1356 Cell: 410-507-7476 e-mail: mprice at hst.nasa.gov ----------------------------------------------

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hobbit-alerts problem
by jonescr＠cisco.com 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

I am again being bitten by regex problems. I am able to reproduce it with the following entries in hobbit-alerts.cfg: $IGNORE_HOSTS=%prod-web-(1|2|3|4|9|10|11)$ HOST=$IGNORE_HOSTS service=* IGNORE If I then check the "info" column of a host that is *not* supposed to be ignored, such as prod-web-12. It shows that it is indeed ignored. This is a serious problem as I have already missed alerts for some production hosts because of this problem. According to pcretest (Henriks recommended method of testing a Hobbit regex), there is nothing wrong with the regular expression that I am using: $ pcretest PCRE version 6.6 06-Feb-2006 re> /prod-web-(1|2|3|4|9|10|11)$/ data> prod-web-12 (*correctly not matching*) No match data> prod-web-19 (*correctly not matching*) No match data> prod-web-10 (*correctly matching*) 0: prod-web-10 1: 10 From the above tests you can see that prod-web-12 does not match the regex when using pcretest, yet Hobbit is matching it for some reason. A possible work-around could be to not use a regex at all, such as $IGNORE_HOSTS=prod-web-1,prod-web-2,prod-web-3... but that is not really a solution if you have hundreds of hosts, and my main point is that regular expressions are not working as they are documented. I've also tried other undocumented ways of using the regex, including: No hosts matched at all $IGNORE_HOSTS=%prod-web-(1|2|3|4|9|10|11)$ HOST="IGNORE_HOSTS" No hosts matched at all $IGNORE_HOSTS="%prod-web-(1|2|3|4|9|10|11)$" HOST=$IGNORE_HOSTS All hosts match (both web-12 and web-11) $IGNORE_HOSTS=prod-web-(1|2|3|4|9|10|11)$ HOST=%$IGNORE_HOSTS If anyone else can verify or reproduce this, it would be helpful in at least convincing Henrik to add it to the list of things to fix in the next version. I honestly hope that it's not a problem with Hobbit and instead something I am doing wrong - if so please enlighten me. -Charles

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hobbitfetch infinite loop?
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Every couple of days I note that hobbitfetch is hung: yellow Load is HIGH System clock is 0 seconds off top - 07:23:48 up 67 days, 15:36, 0 users, load average: 3.57, 5.42, 5.18 Tasks: 94 total, 4 running, 90 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 47.8% us, 6.5% sy, 0.3% ni, 43.0% id, 1.8% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.5% si Mem: 2074580k total, 2008140k used, 66440k free, 46652k buffers Swap: 1052216k total, 2576k used, 1049640k free, 1325888k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 30444 hobbit 25 0 2020 1016 616 R 96.3 0.0 3869:03 hobbitfetch I then go kill -9 the hobbitfetch process, and it starts "working" again, but I get an error reported in the hobbitfetch status: - Program crashed Fatal signal caught! Nothing is written to hobbitfetch.log. But I do get correct statuses for the few hosts that I am polling. I have 4 hosts that I poll using hobbitfetch. I think there will be just two more. But they are all internet facing, so keeping them up is a priority... I would appreciate any suggestions as to where to begin troubleshooting this, as I really need this to work. -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com

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Error - Failed to retrieve ghostlist from server
by dunne＠accuweather.com 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Greetings, I am receiving the following error on a recently configured hobbit server. When I attempt to view the Ghost List all I see on the page is: Failed to retrieve ghostlist from server The only difference between this server and others that I have setup is that the bbd port is set to 8080 instead of 1984. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Mike

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